Garden Hose MAGIC

[Bill Granade]

Adding an old Hose to your Hobby

OK, most all of us have a pellet trap that works as designed. Probably most of us built our own using Duct seal from Home Depot or Lowes @ $3.00 a pound. My trap used 10 lbs. = $30.00. Ball parking, if you shoot 5,000 shots into your trap, you will have added another 10 lbs of weight to your trap.
How about saving $30.00 for Duct seal and having your trap pellet catching material weight less than a pound? Shot 5,000 rounds and the weight may increase to 3 lbs total.  So what is the magic…….your old discarded 4-8 ply hose lying in your shed is the magic. 

All you do is cut the hose into the correct length to fit comfortably in your present pellet trap. You make two rows of hose cuttings and tape them together with a good duct tape…I use Gorilla Tape. Put the double thick hose stop in your pellet trap and watch the magic take place. The pellets from my Marauder.177 shot from 25 yards actually hit the hose stop and then drop to the bottom of the trap. They don't have enough energy left to bounce back through the printer paper targets. When one side gets too beaten up, just flip it over. Clean up the used pellets when you feel like house cleaning.

I will be removing my Duct seal stop in the near future to save weight.

Save money….save weight……add an old Hose to your Hobby!


 

[Wheelman88]

Good idea!

[Tater]

Hmmm....I have an old hose and need a second pellet trap. Have you tried it with low powered guns? The trap would be for my wife's P17 and I wonder if the pellets would just bounce off and out.

Great idea by the way. 

[Geoff]

 very cool thanks for the idea.

i also read where someone used a couple of those synthetic fiber pillows .. somethign about the synthetic fiber kept the pellets from going through the pillows he packed into a box.   if you do not have an old hose but a couple old synthetic fiber pillows, might be worth trying out.

[Bill Granade]

I don't think so.....The hose gives enough so the pellets (mostly still in 80% original shape) just fall to the floor. If not, the the paper target is all that's need to keep the pellets in the trap.

Let us know how it works for you.

[UCChris]

wonder if this would work for a 2240 and 2400...

[Bill Granade]

Can't say...what I did was tape a couple of pieces of hose together and shoot them to see what happened. The outer coating does come off; however, the pellets didn't got through both sides of the hose.

Those old multi ply hoses are not to be compared to the cheap plastic hoses. The plastic hoses will not perform like you want for a pellet trap.

Good shooting   

[willbird]

very cool thanks for the idea.

i also read where someone used a couple of those synthetic fiber pillows .. somethign about the synthetic fiber kept the pellets from going through the pillows he packed into a box.   if you do not have an old hose but a couple old synthetic fiber pillows, might be worth trying out.

I have used "polyfill" like you can buy at Maomart to catch all kinds of bullets, the stuff balls up around them and stows them down.....works for 158 grain projo's going 1500 fps, and 525 grain ones going 1500fps too. I got the idea reading about old time ballisticians using "cotton waste" to catch projectiles, did not have any cotton waste so tried poly fill. To catch the 525 grain pellets(ya I said pellet hehe, they look like pellets) I used a steel tube about 3' long stuffed full of poly fill, the ball around the pellet was about the size of a tennis ball.

[Bicycleman]

Try a couple pairs of worn out blue jeans, old bed sheets, curtains, etc.  The blue jeans (2) work very nicely.

[ivanpros]

Another great simple idea. Thanks, I will try it. I have an old hose that was ready for the trash.

[snakebite4767]

Good idea... I was going to use a piece of hanging carpet to absorb the energy, but might try this idea too.

Snakebite

[umpreacher]

Good idea.  Will have to try it. Sharing ideas is what makes this forum so great.

[daveb50]

Some great ideas, maybe even a combo of some of these ideas would be even better. Carpet or Jeans with the hose or fiberfill for backup if any pellets get through.

[fast14riot]

I use platic grocery bags wadded up in a shoe box.  After about 100 rounds into the same bullseye location I just have to shift the stuff around a bit as it begins to compress and bottom out in the box, but not poke through.  Even with my 1322 at full power at 5m its silent and light to transport.


-Xander

[lonewolf74]

X2 on the box of plastic bags. I actually have a moving box full of plastic bags I use as an archery target. Full length, wooden arrows from a 55lb recurve only penetrate maybe 8 inches. Plenty of resistance to stop a pellet. Just make sure to pack firmly, but not overly tight. Should feel a bit springy when you press on the bags. Hope the archery reference is ok, just putting minds at ease about pellets passing through.